Building a faceted classification for the humanities: Principles and procedures

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 727-754

  Broughton, Vanda ^a   Slavic, Aida ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Classification schemes; Design

Indexed keywords

EID: 34748871385     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00220410710827772     Document Type: Article

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